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The Timeline | 11th C | 12th C | 13th C | 14th C | 15th C | 16th C | 17th C | 18th C | 19th C | 20th C
| YEAR |
MONARCH |
POLITICAL EVENTS AND CONFLICTS |
SOCIAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMICS |
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES |
NOTABLE EVENTS |
| 1000 | Sweyn | The Mark unit of currency | West Saxon, Mercian and Danish Law governs England | ||
| 1002 | Ethelred's massacre of the Danes | ||||
| 1014 | Ethelred II The Unready | ||||
| 1016 | The Danish Viking Canute (Cnut) son of Sweyn has victory at Ashington | ||||
| 1031 | Canute's Scotland campaigns | ||||
| 1042 | Edward The Confessor | Edward's Court of Normandy | French & Latin courtly languages | ||
| 1050 | Westminster Abbey founded, building began | ||||
| 1065 | Harold II the last Saxon | Edward dies 5th January Witan declares Harold king on 6th January |
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| 1066 | William I of Normandy The Conqueror 25th December |
Battle of Hastings | Bayeux Tapestry attributed to Matilda of Flanders, William I's wife or to Bishop Odo | The Norman Conquest | |
| 1072 | Building of Durham Castle commenced | ||||
| 1075 | Uprisings of Hereford, Norfolk and Northumberland quashed | ||||
| 1077 | First Cluniac House at Lewes (Benedictine Order) | ||||
| 1079 | Building of Winchester Cathedral commenced | ||||
| 1083 | Ely Cathedral commenced on former nunnery site | ||||
| 1086 | Domesday book completed | Henry, Holy Roman Emperor & German King born (last Salian dynasty) | |||
| 1087 | William II 26th September |
Introduction of Feudalism | Normanization of England | ||
| 1093 | Greatest scholar is Anselm of Beck | ||||
| 1095 | First Crusade | ||||
| 1096 | William Rufus embarks on First Crusade | ||||
| 1097 | Stephen born Blois France | ||||
| 1099 | Ranierus becomes Pope Paschal II - fosters the First Crusade |
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